Video: Three bullets and a MacBook

Lily Sussman is back from Egypt with the laptop that got “blown up” at the Israeli border

Photo: Lily Sussman

Three weeks ago, an American student working in Cairo was questioned for two hours at the Israeli border before security officials confiscated her Apple AAPL MacBook, called in a sapper, and shot it full of holes.

Lily Sussman, 21, told the story on her blog, where it drew more than a thousand comments and a fair amount of coverage in the Mideast press.

Before she flew home for the holidays, she gave The Daily News Egypt the video interview posted below the fold.

UPDATE: By luck or careful aim, Sussman’s hard drive emerged unscathed. “I’ve managed to recover all the data!” she writes. “Yayy…It’s a survivor. I have yet to hear back from the man handling my case about when and what I will be compensated.”

Lily Sussman is back from Egypt with the laptop that got “blown up” at the Israeli border

Photo: Lily Sussman

Three weeks ago, an American student working in Cairo was questioned for two hours at the Israeli border before security officials confiscated her Apple AAPL MacBook, called in a sapper, and shot it full of holes.

Lily Sussman, 21, told the story on her blog, where it drew more than a thousand comments and a fair amount of coverage in the Mideast press.

Before she flew home for the holidays, she gave The Daily News Egypt the video interview posted below the fold.

UPDATE: By luck or careful aim, Sussman’s hard drive emerged unscathed. “I’ve managed to recover all the data!” she writes. “Yayy…It’s a survivor. I have yet to hear back from the man handling my case about when and what I will be compensated.”